The Spanish Barnabas Zapatawhich was three games away from victory on Monday, surrendered on Tuesday against the Argentine Thomas Martin Etcheverrywho raised two adverse sets and 1-3 against the third: 6-7 (5), 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 and 7-5 in 4h.36′.
The Valencian went to the locker room on Monday with the game suspended due to a lack of light and after the Argentine won five games in a row. Continuing on Tuesday, the game is scheduled as the last on track 1, indoors, the worst possible conditions for a shoes who never won a match on this surface.
Etcheverry, with a ‘break’ in the fourth and a carousel and drama of the fifth set, in which he saved five of the six break balls he had, got his first win at Wimbledon and will face the Swiss. Stan Wawrinka in the next round.
The Argentine, who hit 72 winners against Zapata and saved 17 of 21 break balls, has yet to face Wawrinka.
Source: La Verdad
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